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		</div><p>The UK is to cancel all the contracts for ferry services to be provided in the case of a no-deal Brexit.</p>
<p>The country&#8217;s Department for Transport is to cancel the contracts at a cost to the department of around £50m (€58m), a source has said.</p>
<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling awarded contracts worth a total of more than £100m (€116m) to three firms &#8211; Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne Freight &#8211; to run extra services from ports on England&#8217;s south coast including Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth to ease pressure on the main Dover-Calais route.</p>
<p>After the expected March 29 date of EU withdrawal was delayed, first to April 12 and now October 31, the new services were not required.</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s National Audit Office estimated in February that the maximum cost of compensation to ferry operators if contracts were terminated would be £56.6m (€65.6m), but a Whitehall source said the actual figure was expected to be around 10% lower.</p>
<p>Seaborne&#8217;s contract to provide sailings from Ramsgate was scrapped in February after an Irish company backing the deal pulled out.</p>
<p>The announcement that the remaining contracts are now to be torn up is likely to fuel speculation that the Government no longer believes a no-deal Brexit might happen.</p>
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